Hello, World; Immigrants  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8791 (Jun. 2012), page S5-S8.
Topik: Cities; Geographic Profiles; History; Culture; Aliens; Economic Impact

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London was invented by foreigners. The Romans established a colony in 43AD on an easily bridged bend in the Thames. Boudicca, leader of the Iceni tribe and an early opponent of immigration, burnt it to the ground 17 years later. But it grew back; and thereafter it became a magnet for foreigners, partly because it was a convenient trading post and partly because it lay safely off the coast of a continent where bad things happened horribly often. But though London is used to immigration, the scale and nature since the mid-1990s has changed. Previous waves of immigrants--the Huguenots in the 17th century, the Jews at the end of the 19th, the West Indians in the 1950s and 1960s and the South Asians in the 1970s and 1980s--tended to come from one particular region. Now they come from everywhere. The scale of recent immigration separates modern London not just from its past but also from the rest of the country: two-fifths of Britain's migrants live in London, and in the rest of Britain only 8% of the population are foreign-born. A trusted legal system, stable politics and an honest bureaucracy are especially valued by those who have made money in countries that have none of these. All this has changed London utterly. It has created a new elite: foreigners, or recently naturalised Britons, dominate the best neighbourhoods and the best schools. Economically, London's openness to the rest of the world seems to have had four broad effects. It has pushed up house prices (of which more later), and it has made the city less equal, more productive and more resilient. Foreigners may well have helped to mitigate the impact of the recession on London.

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